Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says he has no plan to force workers to return to the office

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stated the firm does not plan to order company workers to return to the office.

“We don’t have a plan to require people to come back,” Jassy stated on stage Wednesday at the Code Conference in Los Angeles. “We don’t right now. But we’re going to proceed adaptively as we learn.”

Amazon tech workers were told to make money working from home in early 2020 as the coronavirus unfold quickly. In October, Jassy said Amazon would depart it up to particular person managers to determine how usually workers could be required to come into the office, which marked a pointy reversal from its earlier goal of returning to an “office-centric culture.”

Jassy stated Wednesday most workers have returned to bodily workplaces and are spending some days working from residence. Certain groups have a tendency to be at the office extra usually, resembling {hardware} or artistic items, whereas others, resembling engineers, proceed to work largely remotely, he added.

“I do think there are some things that are harder to do remotely,” Jassy stated. “I think it’s a little harder to invent remotely.”

Jassy has previously said the Covid-19 pandemic might depart a long-lasting impression on how workplaces are used, noting that it has already affected how Amazon hires workers. For instance, Amazon is now extra open to distant work, and can recruit workers from any location, relatively than simply specializing in areas the place it has “critical mass,” he stated.

Amazon’s place on distant work differs from a few of its tech friends. Google started requiring most workers to return to bodily workplaces at the least three days every week in April, which has generated some pushback amongst workers who oppose the mandate. Apple additionally told a few of its workers to come into the office three days every week beginning this month.

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